Making Out in Chinese: Revised Edition (Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook)

by Ray Daniels

The books in the Making Out series are fun and accessible guides to languages as they're spoken on the street. These classic phrase books have been updated and expanded for use in informal situations such as bars, parties, or anywhere else one needs to know slang to survive! The books also now feature phrases written in their native script as well as in English, so the book can be shown to the person you are trying to communicate with. With transcriptions revised for easier pronunciation, these helpful books will have you making out in no time!

Making Out in Chinese is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to Mandarin as it's really spoken. It has been thoroughly updated and expanded to be even more helpful as a guide to modern colloquial Mandarin for use in everyday informal interactions- giving access to the sort of catchy expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. A new feature of this book is that each phrase is written in Mandarin script as well as in English, so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person you are trying to communicate with. The transcriptions have also been revised to make it easier to pronounce the phrases intelligibly.

Genres: Language, Reference, China, Linguistics

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Vinh Khang Nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simply good enough to provide you with basic expressions to have a date or two in Chinese. But sometimes too specific and I asked my friends told me some of the expressions aren't used and outdated. This book is a so-so, in chinese we called 一般。

[May Ling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adorable, though the pin yin is not right. The phonetics are however correct. I would not recommend this for someone who has no background. For those that have studied a bit of Chinese or are foreign born, this book is fantastic.

[gudetamama · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cheesy title but actually a good reference! Have to remember that this is still a Tuttle book. Has pinyin with tone marks AND characters. The language is also (presumably) not the stuffy phrasing you find in textbooks, but none of that outrageous slang nobody really uses, or would dare to use.